New DV6000Z owner.. couple ?'s

Recently picked up an HP dv6119us at Circuit City which cost me $770 after rebates. I mainly picked this up for when I travel ( I work for HP ) . Yes I could have gotten a discount of 15% but I was rushed to get something soon so had to get it locally. Couple things I noticed is the palm rests get pretty warm when plugged into wall power and the battery is taking a charge... if its on battery power or the battery has full charge the palm rests don't seem as warm. I picked up a Hitachi 100G 7200RPM drive which was a noticeable difference in desktop performance. Any idea how much battery life I am losing because of this upgrade? or how much extra heat I could be adding? I did notice this drive is a little louder when seeking but I was told some laptops have options to help quieten the seeks? Thanks for any input. This is my first laptop.. I purchased a Dell E1505 for my g/f and loved hers so much I had to have something. Also... any performance GO 6150 drivers out there?

 

The power consumption and heat difference should be minimal. They're neat toys but I was lazy and kept the 5400RPM HD my dv9008nr came with.

 

thx... I started running NHC and its a very neat program.. HD is about 43C at idle and 54C for the CPU.. this notebook gets warm but this is my third one the same model becuase I had problems with two of them.. dead pixels.. cracks on my 2nd one... What I noticed is on battery power and NHC installed I cant jack the brightness up... where can I adjust this??? the FN key isnt working now.

 

Hmm... if you did a clean install onto your new HD, did you remember to install the HP Quick Launch Buttons driver? If you didn't there will be a yellow question mark "Unknown Device" in Device Manager.

 

Its installed... all the other Fn keys are working.. seems to be just the brightness control which I think is being controlled by NHC. When I plug it into wall power its full bright.

 

Try this. Worked well enough on my last Hitachi.

"Change the drive automatic acoustic management settings
- Lowest acoustic emanation setting (quiet seek mode) or maximum performance level (normal seek mode)"

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Battery life isn't great and the "normal", though unsubstantiated, temp for the Turion X2, at least for the 6Z series, seems to be in the 50C-59C area. Warmer than I'd like, but considering the max thermal temp is 95C, nowhere near it's danger zone.

 

Yup already got that done... helped with the drive noise a lot.. I just cant get my brightness to work with the function keys.. not sure why... I sopped my quick launch button icon from showing up in the taskbar and I dont know how to get to the settings now...

 

You can find the Quick Launch Control Center in "Control Panel" under "HP Quick Launch Buttons". Create a shortcut to the desktop and copy it to the Task Bar from there. If for some reason you don't have a Control Panel entry, the name of the module is "Qlbconfg.cpl. You can find it in "Program Files", "Hewlett-Packard", "HP Quick Launch Buttons".